Analyzing US economic and foreign aid data from 1967 to 2007, this paper investigates whether adverse economic and financial conditions are negatively linked to official development assistance (ODA). It finds empirical evidence that US ODA has tended to decline as its economic conditions worsen....

The Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 gave the SEC new authority to pursue monetary penalties through its in-house administrative court system, rather than in federal court. Since then, the Commission has won the overwhelming majority of these administrative proceedings, over which one of five...

Mexico's current climate change policy sets the country on a development pathway which is inconsistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement. The Deep Decarbonization methodology has been used to develop an alternative whole-economy pathway to 2050 consistent with limiting warming to between 1.5...